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The most compelling argument4 comes from Marty Cagan, who says: Instead of using one prototyper for a few weeks, [most organizations] use the full engineering team for full release cycles to build the software that is then QA’ed and deployed into production systems. This is why it typically takes so many companies three or more releases over one to
... See moreRian van der Merwe • Making It Right: Product Management For A Startup World
lyel resner
lyelresner.comIn order to figure out the most fair and equitable way to structure society, he proposed that the designers of said society operate behind a veil of ignorance. This means that they could not know who they would be in the society they were creating. If they designed the society without knowing their economic status, their ethnic background, talents
... See moreRhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
Instead, you are going to develop your product iteratively and incrementally for the few, not the many. Moreover, you're going to start building your product even before you know whether you have any customers for it.
Steve Blank • The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
Noel, a key member of our top-management team, was a strong advocate for helping the customer, so much so that he wanted our sales engineers to take the customer’s side in any disputes with the company. “We don’t want you blindly agreeing with us,” he’d tell them. “We want you to stick up for the customer. After all, we’re not selling hardware; we’
... See moreDavid Packard • The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)
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With an internal startup team, the sequence of accountability is the same: build an ideal model of the desired disruption that is based on customer archetypes, launch a minimum viable product to establish a baseline, and then attempt to tune the engine to get it closer to the ideal.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
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